Dates & Paneer Peda | No White Sugar | Fudge Recipe

Dates & Paneer Peda | No White Sugar | Fudge Recipe

Dates & paneer peda, a milk sweet made with crumbled paneer, sweetened with dates paste and flavored with cardamom and cloves. A quick and easy fudge recipe with no white sugar

Course Dessert

Cuisine Indian

Keyword Dessert with dates, How to make sweet peda, Milk powder peda, No white sugar sweet, Paneer dessert, Peda recipe, Peda without condensed milk, Pedha recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings servings

Calories 130kcal

Ingredients

100 grams crumbled paneer
115 grams dates paste or use 10-12 soft variety of dates
2 tablespoon milk powder
4 tablespoon full fat milk
6 pods cardamom only seeds
3 cloves
5 teaspoon ghee
2 tablespoon pistachio silvers for garnish

Instructions

Measure and keep all ingredients ready. Pound cardamom and cloves together in a mortar pestle.
I have used store bought frozen paneer in this recipe. Remove the required paneer and keep it dunked in hot water for 5 minutes. Drain completely and mash it with a fork.
In a heavy bottom pan, add a teaspoon of ghee. Add the crumbled paneer to this and saute for a minute. Keep the flame simmer.
To this now add the dates paste. My date paste was in the refrigerator so it sort look like a lump, but when added to the hot paneer, it immediately loosened and mixed well with the paneer.
To the paneer date mixture add powdered cardamom and clove powder. Keep turning the mixture and make sure the flame is in simmer to avoid burning.
After 2-3 minutes of adding dates paste, add milk powder and milk to the pan. Stir well
The liquid will be absorbed almost immediately and the paste will start coming together. Now add 1 teaspoon of ghee to this and keep stirring.
Add the remaining 3 teaspoon of ghee and regular intervals until the mixture comes together without sticking to the pan and follows your ladle. This will take just 10 minutes.
Take it off the heat, remove the fudge mixture to a flat plate and let it come down to touchable warm.
Use a melon baller and divide the fudge mixture into 16 portions and arrange it on a parchment laid pan.
Flatten the portions using a greased spoon and garnish it with silvered pistachios. The fudge will still be delicate to touch. At this stage refrigerate for 10 minutes, it will harden.
Enjoy the peda as post meal dessert or a quick pick me up energy ball. This makes a good snack in the kids lunch dabba or post play snack for kids.

Storing Instructions

Though the peda will stay good on the counter for a day or two, I still prefer to refrigerate the peda as it contains milk powder and paneer and the climate here is too hot to trust and leave it outside.
The peda doesn't become like a rock while in the fridge. We are enjoying it for the past 2 days and it retains the soft, fudgy texture.

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